THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine is ... their ugliness ... their p...ink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuum ... their fake health, their fake youthfulness ... the way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There is not enough exercise in this way of life. I try to make up by active gymnastics before I dress when I get up, by walking r...apidly in the lower hall and the greenhouse after each meal for perhaps five to ten minutes, and a good hand rubbing before going to bed. I eat moderately; drink one cup of coffee at breakfast and one cup of tea at lunch and no other stimulant. My health is now, and usually, excellent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well a...s a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness--her selfishness, in short--is a reproach to the American way of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I consider it a singular plan of the fates that human cultivation and refinement should today be concentrated, as it were, in the ...two extremes of our continent, in Europe and in Tschina (as they call it), which adorns the Orient as Europe does the opposite edge of the earth. Perhaps supreme Providence has ordained such an arrangement, so that, as the most cultivated and distant peoples stretch out their arms to each other, those in between may gradually be brought to a better way of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The years of imprisonment hardened me.... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your em...otions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life, I no longer have the emotion of fear. ... there is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Teach us to live our lives with purpose and with powerfor visions of a better world and for decision's hour;...To choose the way of life, reject the way of death,until the radiant force of God fills mind and strength and breath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »